The Washington Post - USA (2022-05-26)

B8 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST.THURSDAY, MAY 26 , 2022

AVERAGE RECORD ACTUAL FORECAST

PREVIOUS YEAR NORMAL LATEST

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T-storms Rain Showers Snow Flurries Ice Cold Front Warm FrontStationary Front

NATIONAL Today Tomorrow

High Low Normal Record high Record low

Reagan Dulles BWI

Today’s tides (High tides in Bold )

WORLD Today Tomorrow

Sources: AccuWeather.com ; US Army Centralized Allergen Extract Lab (pollen data); airnow.gov (air quality data); National Weather Service * AccuWeather's RealFeel Temperature® combines over a dozen factors for an accurate measure of how the conditions really “feel.”

Key: s -sunny, pc -partly cloudy, c -cloudy, r -rain, sh - showers, t -thunderstorms, sf -snow flurries, sn -snow, i -ice

Moon Phases Solar system

NATION

OFFICIAL RECORD

Rise Set

REGION

Past 24 hours Total this month Normal Total this year Normal

Richmond

Norfolk

Ocean City

Annapolis

Dover

Cape May

Baltimore

Charlottesville

Lexington

Washington

Virginia Beach

Kitty Hawk

Harrisburg Philadelphia

Hagerstown

Davis

OCEAN:

Temperatures

Precipitation

for the 48 contiguous states excludes Antarctica

Yesterday's National

72° 2:31 p.m. 57° 3:49 a.m. 79°/61° 94° 1880 42° 18 77

71° 3:09 p.m. 53° 4:00 a.m. 77°/56° 92° 1991 36° 1967

74° 3:05 p.m. 58° 3:19 a.m. 78 °/56° 94° 1991 38° 1956

Washington 12:15 a.m. 5:56 a.m. 12:58 p.m. 6:20 p.m.
Annapolis 3:26 a.m. 9:42 a.m. 3:16 p.m. 9:17 p.m.
Ocean City 5:19 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 5:49 p.m. none
Norfolk 1:28 a.m. 7:30 a.m. 1:26 p.m. 7:58 p.m.
Point Lookout 5:54 a.m. 11:14 a.m. 5:22 p.m. none

73 ° 68 ° 78 ° 65 ° 77 ° 64 ° 83 ° 64 ° 87 ° 69 ° 90 ° 68 °

Sun 5:48 a.m. 8:23 p.m. Moon 3:51 a.m. 4:51 p.m. Venus 4:05 a.m. 5:09 p.m. Mars 2:59 a.m. 2:58 p.m. Jupiter 3:01 a.m. 3:07 p.m. Saturn 1:27 a.m. 12:00 p.m.

May 30 New

June 7 First Quarter

June 14 Full

June 20 Last Quarter

0.00" 6.01" 3.18" 18.61" 15.37"

0.00" 6.06" 3.80" 16.43" 16.32"

0.00" 5.04" 3.09" 18.67" 16.47"

Blue Ridge: Today, a thick cloud cover; an afternoon
thunderstorm, except dry in central parts. High 62 to 66.
Winds south 10–20 mph. Tonight, a thunderstorm; rain, a
thunderstorm in southern parts. Low 55 to 59. Winds south
10– 20 mph.

Atlantic beaches: Today, mostly cloudy, a shower; humid
in the south. High 68 to 78. Winds southeast 7–14 mph.
Tonight, mostly cloudy, a shower. Humid in the south; warm
in central parts. Low 64 to 69. Winds south 7–14 mph.

Pollen: Low Grass Low Tr ees Low Weeds Low Mold Low

UV: Moderate 3 out of 11+

Air Quality: Good Dominant cause: Ozone

78/67

78/69

68/65

72/68

70/65

68/65

71/66

76/67

76/66

75/70

70/66 71/65

72/66

73/62 73/68 61°

60°

67°

66°

Waterways: Upper Potomac River : Today, mainly cloudy. Wind east–
southeast 4–8 knots. Waves less than a foot. Visibility clear. • Lower
Potomac and Chesapeake Bay : Today, partly sunny, a shower. Wind
southeast 6–12 knots. Waves 1–2 feet on the Lower Potomac; 1–3
feet on the Chesapeake Bay.• River Stages : The stage at Little Falls
will be around 4.00 feet today, falling to 3.80 Friday. Flood stage at
Little Falls is 10 feet.

Albany, NY 75/62/c 78/65/t Albuquerque 88/60/s 92/59/pc Anchorage 62/48/pc 66/51/pc Atlanta 76/64/r 77/60/pc Austin 92/63/s 95/66/s Baltimore 71/66/c 78/65/t Billings, MT 81/57/pc 77/54/c Birmingham 74/61/r 78/61/s Bismarck, ND 80/51/s 84/57/pc Boise 89/59/s 76/53/pc Boston 68/60/pc 78/65/c Buffalo 78/65/t 72/58/sh Burlington, VT 74/64/c 78/64/sh Charleston, SC 85/74/t 84/67/t Charleston, WV 80/62/t 73/55/t Charlotte 81/67/t 80/60/t Cheyenne, WY 78/50/c 81/53/pc Chicago 73/53/sh 64/50/pc Cincinnati 73/59/r 68/57/sh Cleveland 80/65/t 73/58/sh Dallas 84/59/s 88/66/s Denver 81/54/c 86/56/pc

Des Moines 63/49/pc 75/56/s Detroit 77/64/t 72/57/sh El Paso 97/66/s 100/69/s Fairbanks, AK 71/48/pc 71/49/pc Fargo, ND 72/50/pc 80/59/pc Hartford, CT 72/61/c 77/64/t Honolulu 84/71/s 85/72/s Houston 89/67/s 93/68/s Indianapolis 72/58/r 66/54/sh Jackson, MS 80/59/pc 78/58/s Jacksonville, FL 88/72/pc 87/66/t Kansas City, MO 64/48/sh 76/56/s Las Vegas 101/76/s 99/73/s Little Rock 69/57/pc 78/56/s Los Angeles 74/58/pc 72/59/pc Louisville 75/60/r 70/58/sh Memphis 73/58/s 75/59/s Miami 89/78/c 88/77/sh Milwaukee 73/52/sh 60/49/pc Minneapolis 64/49/c 75/59/s Nashville 74/59/r 71/57/c New Orleans 84/68/r 86/69/s New York City 68/62/pc 77/65/t Norfolk 78/69/pc 82/67/t

Oklahoma City 72/52/pc 82/61/s Omaha 64/47/pc 78/61/s Orlando 91/73/c 90/71/t Philadelphia 71/65/c 81/67/t Phoenix 105/78/s 104/75/s Pittsburgh 79/63/t 73/59/t Portland, ME 63/56/c 74/61/c Portland, OR 71/56/sh 67/54/r Providence, RI 67/59/pc 74/63/c Raleigh, NC 84/70/pc 80/63/t Reno, NV 87/55/pc 80/54/pc Richmond 78/67/c 80/64/t Sacramento 79/53/pc 84/57/pc St. Louis 71/58/r 67/55/sh St. Thomas, VI 85/77/sh 85/77/c Salt Lake City 93/65/s 85/62/pc San Diego 67/61/pc 68/60/pc San Francisco 67/54/pc 67/55/pc San Juan, PR 86/76/sh 87/76/t Seattle 63/51/sh 63/48/r Spokane, WA 72/53/c 66/44/c Syracuse 78/65/c 76/58/sh Tampa 91/78/c 89/77/t Wichita 66/50/pc 79/60/s

Addis Ababa 83/55/c 83/54/c Amsterdam 64/54/c 59/51/pc Athens 88/68/s 88/69/s Auckland 63/49/sh 59/51/s Baghdad 96/70/s 100/71/s Bangkok 92/80/t 93/80/t Beijing 92/56/s 94/63/c Berlin 71/55/pc 65/47/r Bogota 64/51/c 64/51/r Brussels 70/55/pc 64/47/pc Buenos Aires 57/48/s 57/49/c Cairo 92/69/s 95/71/s Caracas 74/64/r 74/64/t Copenhagen 62/50/pc 58/48/sh Dakar 80/72/s 80/73/pc Dublin 64/43/sh 62/44/pc Edinburgh 59/46/sh 59/42/pc Frankfurt 73/56/pc 71/47/pc Geneva 75/52/pc 77/55/pc Ham., Bermuda 77/71/pc 78/72/pc Helsinki 56/45/sh 60/45/sh Ho Chi Minh City 93/79/t 88/78/t Hong Kong 86/79/r 86/80/r

Islamabad 101/78/s 104/80/s Istanbul 79/65/s 81/64/s Jerusalem 85/62/s 87/63/s Johannesburg 69/44/s 68/46/s Kabul 85/63/s 83/60/s Kingston, Jam. 86/77/t 85/76/t Kolkata 96/84/sh 98/84/t Kyiv 70/56/t 72/52/c Lagos 86/73/t 87/74/t Lima 66/59/pc 65/59/pc Lisbon 87/63/s 90/62/s London 69/53/c 67/48/pc Madrid 81/56/s 86/59/s Manila 95/81/t 95/80/t Mexico City 80/55/pc 79/54/pc Montreal 70/63/sh 74/60/sh Moscow 68/49/r 59/46/sh Mumbai 92/83/pc 92/83/pc Nairobi 78/59/t 77/59/t New Delhi 98/85/pc 102/84/pc Oslo 58/44/sh 51/47/sh Ottawa 72/63/sh 75/55/r Paris 72/54/pc 72/49/pc Prague 68/54/pc 66/45/sh

Rio de Janeiro 79/67/s 80/68/s Riyadh 108/82/s 109/82/s Rome 84/64/c 89/67/pc San Salvador 83/69/r 79/69/r Santiago 65/43/pc 60/43/c Sarajevo 80/54/t 81/56/t Seoul 73/59/s 76/56/s Shanghai 77/66/c 86/70/pc Singapore 90/78/pc 90/77/t Stockholm 60/46/sh 56/44/sh Sydney 69/54/pc 70/55/pc Taipei City 80/71/r 76/73/t Tehran 83/60/s 82/65/s Tokyo 76/67/pc 74/65/r Toronto 75/63/t 73/56/r Vienna 76/56/pc 79/55/c Warsaw 68/54/sh 61/45/r

Today Mostly cloudy

Friday Heavy t-storms

Saturday T-storm

Sunday T-storm

Monday Mostly sunny

Tuesday Partly sunny, hot

Sa Su M Tu W Th F Sa Su M Tu W Th F Sa Statistics through 5 p.m. Wednesday

Difference from 30–yr. avg. (Reagan): this month: –0.2° yr. to date: +0.2°

High: Needles, CA 102° Low: Climax, CO 17°

World High: Sunaynah, Oman 116° Low: Hall Beach, Canada –8°

Weather map features for noon today.

WIND: SSE 6–12 mph HUMIDITY: High

CHNCE PRECIP: 25%

FEELS*: 73°

W: H:

P:

FEELS: 81°

S 8–16 mph Very High

90% W: H:

P:

FEELS: 80°

W 6–12 mph High

80% W: H:

P:

FEELS: 89°

NW 4–8 mph High

40% W: H:

P:

FEELS: 92°

ESE 4–8 mph High

5% W: H:

P:

FEELS: 96°

S 4–8 mph Very High

15%

Mostly cloudy

A couple of showers could be around
at almost any time. That said,
morning might be favored. Clouds
will remain numerous, with perhaps
a few afternoon breaks. Highs will be
in the mid-70s or so. An increase in humidity is
also noticeable. Winds will blow from the
southeast about 5 to 10 mph.

The Weather

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BY DANA HEDGPETH

Carol Lessans looked out the
window above her kitchen sink
Tuesday morning and was
stunned: As she watched, a black
bear walked through her Silver
Spring yard, lay down and ate
seeds from her bird feeder.
Her home, along Cutstone Way,
backs up to a heavily wooded area
near Route 200, so she and her
husband are used to seeing foxes
and birds, including the occasion-
al wild turkey. But after 33 years
there, s he said, it was the first time
they’d encountered a black bear.
“We were like, ‘Oh my god,’ ”
Lessans said. She reached for her
cellphone and recorded a short
video of the bear that she later
posted to Facebook. “We have a
bear in our yard!!!!” she wrote.
Wildlife experts at Maryland’s
Department of Natural Resources
saw the v ideo a nd said t hey believe
the b ear was a male about 11 / 2 y ears
old, weighing between 100 and
200 pounds.
It is “unusual but not unheard
of ” to see a black bear in a D.C.
suburb, said B rian Eyler, the game
mammal section leader for the

Maryland DNR, and this is the time of year when young male bears are venturing out and look- ing for their own territory. There were several reports of black bear sightings in the Silver Spring area in June 2016. On Tuesday, Lessans said, she

and her husband tried to get a better view of the bear from their screened-in porch, but when her husband made a noise, the bear fled. Hours later, even though she said she had seen a previous post about a bear sighting farther north in Montgomery County, she

could scarcely believe it. “I knew about the sightings,” Lessans said, “and you see them on Facebook, but you think, ‘Oh, they could be in another country.’ ” But, in hindsight, there were signs. The couple’s backyard bird feeder had been broken earlier

this week in a “strange way,” said Lessans, who works as an artist. “It wasn’t as if it had fallen over and broken. It was open like another being could have done it.” The couple joked that maybe a bear had knocked it over, but they didn’t think too much of it. Her husband put up a new feeder. Then, around 7 a.m. Tuesday, she saw the black bear eating from it. Lessans said she called local wildlife authorities but got discon- nected as she was being trans- ferred. Maryland DNR officials confirmed they got a report Tues- day of a bear sighting in the Silver Spring area. Eyler said the bear in Lessans’s yard probably came from a less- dense area to the more urban area of Silver Spring via parklands and greenways. His department recently had a report of a black bear sighting in Howard County, he said, and “this could possibly be the same bear,” although he cau- tioned there was no way to know. “We don’t get them inside the Beltway as often,” Eyler said. In 2014, a young black bear captured regional attention when it took officials three hours to

scare i t out o f a tree on t he grounds of the National Institutes of Health campus, near the Medical Center Metro stop in Bethesda. It was tranquilized and relocated to western Montgomery C ounty. T he year before, a young black bear was relocated after it was sedated and caught in Northwest D.C.’s Palisades neighborhood. Black bears are native to the D.C. region, and officials said there’s a healthy population of about 2,000, mostly in western Maryland but slowly expanding outward. In the spring and early summer, young males are usually “dispersing and trying to find their own territory,” Eyler said. Think of them, he said, “as teen- agers trying to find their way.” Officials advised the public to remove any items that would at- tract black bears, including gar- bage, bird feeders and grills with grease. Some other advice, perhaps, went without saying. “I just wanted to go o ut a nd give it a big, old hug,” Lessans said of the b ear she e ncountered Tuesday. “It looked so adorable. But I wouldn’t do that. I’m not crazy.”

MARYLAND

Bear caught on video s tealing food from bird feeder in Silver Spring yard

CAROL LESSANS Carol Lessans captured a video of a young black bear that wandered into her backyard Tuesday near Route 200. After 33 years living there, Lessans says this is the first time she has seen a black bear.

BY HANNAH NATANSON

Admissions officers at Thomas
Jefferson High School for Science
and Technology have s ent offers to
a more diverse group of students
for the second year in a row, ac-
cording to data released Wednes-
day.
The Class of 2026 at TJ, as the
school is known, will include 550
students accepted from a pool of
2,544 applicants. Of the o ffers sent
to eighth-graders, about 60 per-
cent went to Asian students,
21 percent to White students,
8 percent to Hispanic students
and 6 percent to Black students.
Roughly 33 percent of offers went
to low-income students and
51 percent went to female stu-
dents.
The class is the second under a
controversial admissions system
established in late 2020 that divid-

ed parents and alumni and spurred a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination. That s uit, which i s ongoing, recently drew the inter- vention of the Supreme Court. The demographics of t his year’s class closely resemble last year’s, although the percentage of Asian students increased slightly, while the percentage of Hispanic students decreased slightly. The percentage of White students and Black students receiving offers re- mained about the same. The percentage of low-income and female students rose. “The Class of ’26 offer data shows us that the revised admissions process, developed to create a more accessible, merit-based and race-neutral process for students, continues to be effective at breaking down barriers to TJ,” Fairfax County Public Schools spokeswoman Julie Moult said in

a statement. TJ, a prestigious magnet school with a heavy focus on science, engineering, technology and math, is often ranked the best public school in the nation. But it has long enrolled single-digit per- centages of Black and Hispanic students — meaning they are un- derrepresented compared with the county — while enrolling large numbers of Asian and White students. Two years ago, hoping to boost diversity, top officials with Fairfax County Public Schools revised the admissions system by removing a notoriously difficult test and a $100 application fee. The changes led to the acceptance of the most diverse class of students in recent memory. The Class of 2025, the first to be admitted under the system, was about 54 percent Asian, 22 percent

White, 11 percent Hispanic and 7 percent Black. Roughly 25 percent of students receiving offers were economically disadvan- taged. Over the past five years before the admissions changes, between 65 and 75 percent of offers typical- ly went to Asian students, while between 17 a nd 22 percent of offers went to White students. Hispanic students accounted for between 1 and 5 percent of offers, while Black students accounted for between 1 and 2 percent. The county at large was 50 percent White, 20 percent Asian, 17 percent Hispanic and 10 percent Black in 2020, according to Fairfax government data. The revised TJ admissions system is the subject of a parent lawsuit that alleges it discrimi- nates against Asian Americans. In February, U.S. District Judge

Claude Hilton ruled that the admissions process constitutes an illegal act of “racial balancing” and barred Fairfax schools from using it. Fairfax appealed that ruling to the U.S. Court o f Appeals for the 4 th Circuit, which is now con- sidering the matter. Hilton had also ruled that Fair- fax could not employ the system

for the Class of 2026, although school officials had already begun assessing applications when he gave his opinion. Fairfax appealed that part of Hilton’s ruling all the way to the Supreme Court, which in late April intervened to say that Fairfax c ould k eep u sing its admissions system for this year. The court did not explain its reason- ing. But three justices, Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Neil M. Gorsuch, noted their dis- agreement. The average GPA of the thou- sands who applied to TJ w as about 3.8. The average GPA of students offered spots in the Class of 2026 was 3.95. Students across Northern Vir- ginia are eligible to apply to TJ, including those living in Arling- ton, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties, as well as Fair- fax City and Falls C hurch.

VIRGINIA

In second year of new admissions system, TJ claims more diverse o≠er class

KATHERINE FREY/THE WASHINGTON POST Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

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